Example sentences of "not [adv] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is indeed strange that Anselm never referred the question to Ivo , bishop of Chartres : he knew him as a friend , but not apparently as the greatest authority on Canon Law in northern Europe . |
| 2 | The avoidance of such fluctuations was considered desirable not only as a first stage in monetary union but also for the smooth operation of the Common Agricultural Policy , since food prices are calculated according to the exchange value of member currencies . |
| 3 | For the last century the Tay has been known not only as the largest , but also arguably as the best salmon river in Britain . |
| 4 | As for the G protein-linked receptors , signal transduction through tyrosine kinase receptors is an energy-requiring process because ATP is consumed not only as the two receptors interact ( autophosphorylation ) , but also during the subsequent phosphorylation of PLC- γ 1 ( Box 2 ) . |
| 5 | Equally , in the words of Lord Wright in Grant v. Australian Knitting Mills ( 1936 P.C. ) ‘ there is a sale by description even though the buyer is buying something displayed before him on the counter ; a thing is sold by description , though it is specific , so long as it is sold not merely as the specific thing but as a thing corresponding to a description . ’ |
| 6 | As Lord Wright said in Grant v Australian Knitting Mills Ltd [ 1936 ] AC 85 : It may also be pointed out that there is a sale by description even though the buyer is buying something displayed before him on the counter : a thing is sold by description , though it is specific , so long as it is sold not merely as the specific thing but as a thing corresponding to a description , eg woollen undergarments , a hot-water bottle , a second-hand reaping machine , to select a few obvious illustrations . |
| 7 | She was aware of her now , not just as a daft , cantankerous old woman but as someone like herself , fearful and isolated . |
| 8 | It is important that the school library 's microcomputer will be seen as a whole-school resource and not just as a mechanical tool for improving the efficiency of the school library . |
| 9 | Erm we we have actually got data to prove that actually as well in our phase one surveys er so it 's not just as a general statement . |
| 10 | In their writing , Froebel , Pestalozzi , Edgeworth , the Macmillans and Susan Isaacs reiterate basic principles for effective learning , all of which involve the child as an active learner not just as a passive receptacle ( Curtis 1986 , Ch. 2 ) . |
| 11 | Nigel Terry plays him most intelligently , not just as a mercenary hit-man but as a soft-spoken scholar obsessed by mortality . |
| 12 | ‘ I feel I 'll score goals anywhere in any system and not just as a forward player getting on the end of anything knocked long . |
| 13 | The ‘ distrustful fellow ’ of the past is present , and not just as a commemorative item . |
| 14 | But the greater professionalism of the top search consultants and their measurable success in the business by the 1980s has influenced a significant number of clients to go beyond a basically negative attitude ; and in the words of one regular user of search , to see headhunting not just as a convenient time and money saver , but as an objective , imaginative , innovative , creative and even indispensable management tool . |
| 15 | It is obviously important that we should have some clear idea about the nature of the phenomenon as an aspect of language not just as a preliminary but as a prerequisite for determining how it should figure in pedagogy . |
| 16 | But resemblance can not explain how a thinker could experience one object as standing for another ; for how could the fact that a particular datum is similar to other things mean anything to a thinker unless he experienced it as being like many others — that is , unless he grasped it , not just as a particular but as an instance of a kind ? |
| 17 | Its renewal is absolutely essential , not just as a clear message to the terrorists but as a vital part of our ability to safeguard the lives of our citizens . |
| 18 | I am convinced , however , that language teachers coming from abroad to work in the UK should be seen as something positive and not just as a stop-gap measure to alleviate a national shortage . |
| 19 | Its difficult to go beyond normal scepticism and see this huge number not just as a potential but as a reality . ’ |
| 20 | Largely as a result of Wedd 's enthusiasm , I found myself becoming irresistibly attracted to the Scots pine — the solitary tree as well as the clump — not just as a potential ley mark point , but as something in its own right , I was not alone : legend seems to confirm the special nature of the pine . |
| 21 | That is why we need history presented as it is in this book : not just as the brief flicker of time since the industrial revolution or since the invention of writing , but as the 40,000 years of modern thought and language , and the sweep of six million years since we were born as the third chimpanzee . |
| 22 | The to infinitive here asserts an occurrence not just as an attested fact but as a significant fact , something which tells one about the character of the subject . |
| 23 | But it also sustains an idea of the feminist , not just as an individual , autonomous subject , but also as a subject defined by her relationship to others , who is differently defined in different contexts , and who has no fixed boundaries . |
| 24 | Eliot that ‘ to divert interest from the poet to the poetry is a laudable aim ’ ( 1972 : 22 ) , but that agreement is expressed in their work as a theoretical system and not just as an intellectual preference . |
| 25 | This chapter will discuss the usefulness of the graph-search approach , not just as an analytical tool to be used after the fact , but also as a practical tool to be used in the development of a speech understanding system . |
| 26 | It should also have discussed the possible defence of necessity , referring to it expressly by that name , not vaguely as the last two sentences of the answer do . |